Doug Ewell wrote:
> Sampo has just articulated my favorite argument about so-called
> "artificial" scripts. All writing systems are created by man; they do
> not occur in nature, like mountains and trees and cats, [...]
O, no! At least one of them has a (super)natural origin: CJK ideographs came
carved on the shell of a gigantic turtle which appeared in dream to Cang
Jie. :-)
> "The Gothic script was devised in the fourth century by the Gothic
> bishop, Wulfila (311-383 CE), [...]
Despite his Germanic name, I think he was a Greek.
> [...] The chief manuscript, kept at Uppsala, is the Codex
> Argenteus [...]
Apart Paul's Epistles, which are here in Milan.
_ Marco
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